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Tangents, rectifiability, and corkscrew domains

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-12-30 v4 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

In a recent paper, Cs\"ornyei and Wilson prove that curves in Euclidean space of σ\sigma-finite length have tangents on a set of positive H1\mathscr{H}^{1}-measure. They also show that a higher dimensional analogue of this result is not possible without some additional assumptions. In this note, we show that if ΣRd+1\Sigma\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{d+1} has the property that each ball centered on Σ\Sigma contains two large balls in different components of Σc\Sigma^{c} and Σ\Sigma has σ\sigma-finite Hd\mathscr{H}^{d}-measure, then it has dd-dimensional tangent points in a set of positive Hd\mathscr{H}^{d}-measure. We also give shorter proofs that Semmes surfaces are uniformly rectifiable and, if ΩRd+1\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{d+1} is an exterior corkscrew domain whose boundary has locally finite Hd\mathscr{H}^{d}-measure, one can find a Lipschitz subdomain intersecting a large portion of the boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1505.03960,
  title  = {Tangents, rectifiability, and corkscrew domains},
  author = {Jonas Azzam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03960},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Corrected proofs and typos, changed a definition. To appear in Publicacions Matem\`atiques

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